Totaling the unsustainable tax increases and windfall revenue during Pritzker Administration – Wirepoints
May 26, 2026
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With $162 billion more from taxpayers, couldn’t you deliver a few bond upgrades, too
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A largely unasked question is becoming glaring: Is Illinois doing all it should to use artificial intelligence to make government cost less and work better? So far, the evidence says no.
Raise those taxes! Double them. Triple them. I’m sure the businesses and people are not even close to being smart enough to go elsewhere. Pond scum is smarter than most Chicagoans.
Apparently the worst mayor in the US has nothing better to do than come up with illogical, surreal schemes that even Kwame tells him won’t fly.
What will that do to the sales outside Chicago vs inside Chicago? Just like the Cook county sugar tax prompted consumers to buy their soft drinks outside Cook county.
Nothing to argue about start making cuts, abolishing positions period.
Luckily for BJ, there are so many other sources from which to increase or create taxes and fees. Throw enough **** at the wall and something will stick!